Making Each Other Look Good

March 17, 2010

I facilitate branding & marketing strategy sessions.I’m pride myself in gettingcreative ideas out of any group:jewelry makers,schoolteachers,haunted house owners(don’t ask).With some groups, it’s work.Recently, it was anything but.I facilitated a group ofimprov-trained actors.Big difference.What I noticed is they are uniquely trained in and committed to making each other look good.The room was electric with each idea building off the previous oneand a constant stream of acknowledgment fora good line, a good thought,a good direction.No one was in love with his/herown idea.Not one Eeyore in the group whining “that’ll never work” or “we tried that before.”Just making each other look good.I have some rock & roll friends,Phil & Ninette, who made a commitment some 10 years ago that whenever one of them leaves the room,the other says something nice about that person.It creates a fairly regular banter of “Man, she’s beautiful”“Am I lucky, or what?”“Doesn’t he blow you away?”It’s purposeful affirmation that gets witnessedagain and again.I’m intrigued bywhat we could createif we all committed tomaking each other look good.

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